Dialect/slang

simonm · Post by **simonm** » Fri 28 Mar, 2008 3:28 pm

Trojan wrote: electricaldave wrote: Whenever a room was crowded, folk used to say,"Its as busy as Briggate in 'ere"I haven't heard that said for years. We used to say "like Briggate on a Saturday afternoon" when it was crowded as opposed "like Aberdeen on a flag day" when deserted At the risk of geting banned. when being with a "loose lady" we used to say it "were like chucking a sausage up briggate". funnily enough, it was only after coming out of the registra's office after my lad had just been named officially, that I realised my error.It didn't dawn on me at the time that I had done anything wrong, but I suppose being named after a beer aint all that bad. His name? .......... (in full, doesn't take a genius to work out) Samuel McGill:0

fevlad · Post by **fevlad** » Fri 28 Mar, 2008 3:47 pm

Steve Jones wrote: What I meant Fevlad was that was Mr Balls usually says is consistent with his surname. Geddit<G>?, trying to avoid getting censored on here <LOL>. I still don't get it

arry_awk · Post by **arry_awk** » Fri 28 Mar, 2008 6:02 pm

As Harriet sez 'There's no Harman that! Gerrimoff!

Lilysmum · Post by **Lilysmum** » Fri 28 Mar, 2008 7:33 pm

Hi, I've just registered so a bit new to all this.I was born in Yeadon as was my Grandad who was very broad yorkshire.He would say get that sammed up(picked up) nithered (cold) faither(father) maister(master)as in "tha'll ef ta shew that dog who's maister" clemmed (hungry) ah'll gi thee a right bell tinkler(clout round lughole) wappy head or barnpot(idiot)thats just a few off the top of my head.He never strayed far from Yeadon,probably cos nobody understood a word he said!!

fevlad · Post by **fevlad** » Fri 28 Mar, 2008 7:39 pm

Lilysmum wrote: Hi, I've just registered so a bit new to all this.I was born in Yeadon as was my Grandad who was very broad yorkshire.He would say get that sammed up(picked up) nithered (cold) faither(father) maister(master)as in "tha'll ef ta shew that dog who's maister" clemmed (hungry) ah'll gi thee a right bell tinkler(clout round lughole) wappy head or barnpot(idiot)thats just a few off the top of my head.He never strayed far from Yeadon,probably cos nobody understood a word he said!! getting things sammed up is still in useit's a nice phrase

fevlad · Post by **fevlad** » Fri 28 Mar, 2008 7:59 pm

keep yer udders wet i' this cowd weather

Lilysmum · Post by **Lilysmum** » Fri 28 Mar, 2008 8:07 pm

If we were roarin(crying) as kids my grandad would say "if tha cries more tha'll pee less"

String o' beads · Post by **String o' beads** » Fri 28 Mar, 2008 8:53 pm

Barmpot was my family's version of that, Lilysmum. A pot full of barminess was what I took it to mean. Have we mentioned spells for splinters? Boozer's gloom - phrase applied to anyone who'd had one over the eight. Not sure if that's a Leeds phrase or whether it's more widespread. Applied to anything trashy - 'Where did you get that? Back o' t' market?'

Lilysmum · Post by **Lilysmum** » Fri 28 Mar, 2008 8:56 pm

I went down a wooden slide aged about 5 and got a load of spells in my bum!

fevlad · Post by **fevlad** » Sat 29 Mar, 2008 9:00 am

Ahm fair clemmed in me cobbins